Trying to Hold a Box of Light: 12/4/16

A CALIFORNIA WINTER BOUQUET

"A California Winter Bouquet" (12-9-16 037v2) is from the same batch as yesterday's pic. I love these trees and this is the first time I've approached them from this side. There's actually just two trees here (the right quarter or so of the pic is one of them). The original is a very busy, big shot (streets, cars, buildings, phone wires running through the lower portion of these trees, etc.) taken from across the street. I'd have crossed my fingers as I took the several shots of these beauties if I could have. I also was worried about the distance I had to take them from to get in the wide sweep of the upper branches and leaves, with me standing on the ground. And these two tree's sweep is actually even wider than shows in this shot. I may some time post another pic I have that shows it more fully. But that one took in a blurring sun spot on the left I could not satisfactorily deal with in post production.

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STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

"Stairway to Heaven" (12-9-16 022v5) was just fudged now from one of those pix I mentioned I'd taken yesterday in Isla Vista's Aniskoyo Park. The title may be a bit of an over-statement, at least considering how I'm feeling today (Ack!). But yesterday, it could well have applied. I obviously heavily edited this pic, and I sort of like the vague pointillist effect it wound up having. It also, to me, resembles (a wee bit) an old Japanese brush painting.

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SETTING THE NIGHT ON FIRE

"Setting the Night On Fire" (12-6-09 8517v7f) ... what can I say about it that I haven't said of many other pix? New morph of old version of one of my oldest pix, with lots of other versions from other wanderings through its folder keeping it company. Not sure what I like about it. Well, not totally true. I really like the colors and kinda sorta like the texture. But it's missing something. Ah well, no time to fuss further (it'd go wonky anyway, it's so over-edited) or find a different pic to pick at. So I've put this one up, even though it doesn't really set anything on fire for me (smile). BTW, hopefully I'll have some new realistic pix to post from soon. I took a lot today on a long walk.

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